Description
Book SynopsisJudith Vollmer’s sixth collection explores human voices and geographies, stories and mysteries, and natural phenomena inside urban spaces. Her lyrical narratives, character portraits, locational investigations, and choral fragments often emerge from physical objects and from green and/or ruined cityscapes.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- New Poems
- Roadside Tavern
- Young Jane Jacobs
- DoppelgÄnger
- A Visit from Milosz
- Pittsburgh Maps
- Young George Harrison
- The Diagonal
- Angel Dust Elegy
- Street Fair
- Ovarian
- The Reader
- The Sound Boat
- The Immolation
- Little Body
- Old Red Dog
- Ars Poetica
- To a New Window
- The Ruined House
- An Elixir of Mica
- Vernal Equinox
- Open, Grove
- from The Apollonia Poems (2017)
- Flower Meal
- Walking to Miami
- Another Green
- Little Grandmother Pays an Evening Visit, Rolls Down Her Stockings and Looks Around
- Very Smart Very Proud
- Mother Comes
- Street Grate
- After Reading Another Book of Dull Poetry I Go Out and Cut the Grass
- Children of October
- In an Old Hotel
- The Vowel
- Copper, Gold, Olives, Wine
- Apollonia Is Restored to the Book
- from The Water Books (2012)
- New Black Dress
- Field Near Rzeszow
- On the Tarmac at Dover Air Force Base
- To a Lamp
- Sticks Found in a Ravine
- My Orange
- Hole in the Sky
- Kinzua
- The Bowl
- For Aaron Scheon
- I Take My Mother to See the Rothko Panels, 2007
- Entering
- After Pavese’s “Grappa in September”
- from Reactor (2004)
- The Coffee Line from Yucca Mountain Sequence
- Coffee with Narrative
- In Praise of Camus at the End of His Century
- Port of Entry
- Installation
- She Kept Me
- Spill
- Note to the Mist
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- from The Door Open to the Fire (1997)
- My Sublimation
- Asleep at the 2001 Club, Early Seventies
- Poem at an Unmarked Grave
- The Sound of the Slap
- Passing the Clinic in a Small Town
- The Night Trains
- We Built This City
- Eating Reagan
- Star Gazing with My Brothers
- The Ecology of Baseball
- Tell Me about the Peacocks and Fountains
- Night Walks
- from Level Green (1990)
- Moving to New York
- Fabian
- Father’s Magic Trick
- The Nuclear Accident at SL 1, Idaho Falls, 1961
- Looking for Level Green
- Fourteen Nights
- Sheila’s Flat
- My Grandmother’s Rags
- Smoking Cigars with Li Po
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- Acknowledgment
- Notes
